Can someone advise on this? My family & I want to move to Scotland,so my wife can spend her final years near her family. We own a house in England,with a mortgae, so cant buy another,so want to rent. I get Income Support & Carers Allowance, & want to claim LHA but the council say that I have over the savings limit (£16k) so cant claim LHA. The £16K is , they say, the equity in my house,and they are treating this as ready money! Is this correct? Its all locked up in the house,we have no other savings. We would have to rent our house to cover the mortgage, until it could be sold, but in this climate who knows how long that could be!